The Veldt Vocabulary Test

What's the missing word:

Their approach ____________ a switch somewhere and the nursery light flicked on when they came within ten feet of it.

• sensitized

• recede

• jaunt

• telepathic

What does it mean to recede?

"...the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance..."

• a journey taken for pleasure

• causing to flow forth

• to pull back or move away or backward

• perplexed

Which one below is a veldt?

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The lions were coming. And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room.

What does conceived mean?

• a journey

• have the idea for

• communicated about

• explained about

What does it mean to take a 'jaunt'?

• a quick journey taken for pleasure

• a medicine to help you sleep

• a meal to have with family

• a date with a friend

What does the word 'telepathic' mean?

• communicating with words

• communicating with your hands

• communicating with hugs

• communicating without apparent physical signals

Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the children’s minds and created life to fill their every desire.

What does 'emanations' mean here?

• words to come out

• thoughts to flow forth

• drawings to appear

• handwriting to look great

What does it mean to wear off or die down?

• bemused

• telepathic

• subside

• engrossed

Which one is a mental illness that makes you behave in an unusual way?

• subside

• neurosis

• telepathic

• bemused

“I think we’d better get downstairs before those kids get ___________ with those beasts again.”

What word belongs in the blank?

• veldt

• recede

• subside

• engrossed